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Cisco: IT managers neglect employee security threat

Employees' bad habits, such as using company computers for personal business and allowing others to use company-owned technology unsupervised, cause a glaring gap in security that goes unnoticed by many IT managers, according to a study conducted by Cisco Systems.

While enterprises may be on top of their security practices for the most part, data leakage as a result of end user misuse and abuse is something that might very well be flying under the radar.

According to a newly released global study by Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), "The Challenge of Data Leakage for Business and Employees Around the World," employees are taking numerous risks that could lead to the loss of corporate information.

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